Half-hour adventure series, set in the Bahamas, featured Forrest Tucker
as Crunch Adams, owner of the Crunch Adams Charter Boat Service and
skipper of the "Poseidon", and Sandy Kenyon as his partner,
Des (short for "Desperate") Smith.

Episodes on KIRO-7 Seattle, Washington in 1958,
aired under the series title "Charter Boat"

1.08 [--] Crunch and Des: STRIKE THREE
[# 9016; 6Jan56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
A group of tough racketeers decides to take over the waterfront, but
Crunch and Des have other ideas. [JB]
(Synd: 07Feb57 Denver, CO) [JB]

1.09 [--] Crunch and Des: HULL DOWN
[# 9017; 6Jan56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
A favorite charter of Crunch Adams and his mate Des has been told
that she is too old to run her shipping empire and that the stockholders
want her to retire. Faced with the knowledge that she will never lead
an active life again, she feels she has really grown old and useless
until Crunch proves her wrong. [JB]
(Synd: 20Jun56 Bay City, MI) [JB]

1.13 [--] Crunch and Des: FIRE ON THE BEACH
(# 9392; 10Feb56 copyright date)
When Crunch, his wife Sari, and Des are about to depart on a "busman's
holiday", a stranger offers Crunch $500 to take him along. [TA/JB]
(Synd: 13Nov56 WTVY-9, Dothan, Ala., Tue 8:00pm) [TA/JB]

1.14 [--] Crunch and Des: FRESH WATER MERMAID
[# 9393; 30Jan56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
The long friendship of Crunch and Des is jeopardized when Des falls
in love with a designing female who wants him to sell his share of
the Poseidon. [JB]
(Synd: 08Nov56 Seattle, WA) [JB]

1.15 [--] Crunch and Des: SPORTING BLOOD
[# 9394; 23Apr56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
The daughter of a famous sporting family falls in love with a
missionary's son who has no interest in sports at all. The
missionary's son tries to learn deep-sea fishing to impress his
fiancée's father. [JB]
(NOTE - This synopsis is similar to Ep. 30 "The Big Ones Get Away")
(Synd: 16Jul56 West Hartford, CT) [JB]

1.21 [--] Crunch and Des: FIFTY-FOUR, FORTY AND FIGHT
[# 10123; 16Apr56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
Crunch and Des have a violent argument over their fishing prowess and
compete with each other for the largest catch. [JB]
(Synd: 29Mar57 Syracuse, NY) [JB]

1.27 [--] Crunch and Des: THE SHELL GAME
[#10543; 10Jun56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
When Crunch Adams sets out to prove that, in the old shell game the
hand is quicker than the eye, the Poseidon ends up in the middle of
the Navy's target practice. [JB]
(Synd: 10Oct56 Des Moines, IA) [JB]

1.37 [--] Crunch and Des: SALT WATER DAFFY
[# 11874; 31Aug56 copyright date]
Guest Cast:Inger Stevens
Synopsis:
Crunch and Des are hired as technical advisors for a movie being shot
on Caribee Key. There are complications when the star prefers to
play her love scenes with Crunch. [JB]
(Synd: 23Jan57 Cleveland, OH) [JB]

1.38 [--] Crunch and Des: A MATTER OF FAITH
[#11875; 8Aug56 copyright date]
Synopsis:
Crunch is chartered by the head of an orphanage, Father O'Bannon,
to take the best athlete and student fishing. [JB]
(Synd: 31Dec56 Des Moines, IA) [JB]

[--] Crunch and Des: (unknown title)
Synopsis: Crunch believes that two treasure-hunting friends of his are
being duped by the captain of their boat. [TA]
(Synd: 22Sep57 WNAC-7, Boston, Mass., Sun 1:00pm) [TA]

################ Crunch and Des ##############
################# the end ##################
##############################################